Famous People with Name Lisette

Lisette Model            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Lisette Model: was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna, Austria. Her father was an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the International Red Cross; her mother was French and Roman Catholic, and Model was baptised into her mother's faith.

Lisette Melendez            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lisette Melendez: a freestyle/latin pop/dance-pop singer born in 1976 in Spanish Harlem, NYC. She is best known for her 1991 hits "Together Forever" and "A Day In My Life (Without You)". With powerful and sultry vocals, these songs propelled her debut album Together Foreve

Lisette Nieves            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Lisette Nieves: the founder of "Atrevete Latino Youth, Inc.", an organization who focuses on the educational and leadership training of young Latinos.When Nieves returned to New York, she went to work for PRACA (Puerto Rican Association of Community Affairs) as coordinator of "Muevete" (Move on). On May 14, 2001, Nieves and several other coordinators decided to leave PRACA because they wanted Muevete to become an independent organization of its own. However, they were not permitted to use the name Muevete and therefore they named their organization "Atrevete" (I Dare You). The organization's main office is located in the Bronx. Under her leadership, the organization's main focus is to educate and to develop the leadership skills of the Latino youth, starting in New York and Boston and then eventually nationally.

Gabriel Francisco Lisette            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Gabriel Francisco Lisette: was a Chadian politician that played a key-role in the decolonization of Chad. In February 1947 he founded the country's first African political party, the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT), a radical and nationalist organization calling for self-determination. It was a branch of the Marxist-oriented inter-territorial African Democratic Rally, of which he was to be later chosen as secretary-general.